3/14/11

The Vintage Home #11

It's hard to believe, but once upon a time it was okay to make your toilet look like a birthday cake. The Pepto-Bismol pink toilet goes perfectly with the yellow wall, don't you think? And remember when all Kleenex boxes had crochet covers? Ahhh, the good old days. Let's have a look at some more home decor from yesteryear.

For some reason, when I some interiors like this, I'm always reminded of A Clockwork Orange. A lot of the homes in the movie are traumatizing to the retina like this.

I don't watch those HGTV shows, so I really don't have a clue about current trends in interior design. But this actually doesn't look too bad - it's bold, but doesn't seem too terribly out of style.

Anyone know what game is being played here? I don't know, but what I do know is this room is a glory to behold from floor to ceiling.

Damn that chair looks comfortable. Perfect addition to the now cliche "man cave".

Okay, this one is actually from the sixties, but I had to include it. Have you ever seen such a mod workshop? This tool shed has got style!

14 comments:

We almost bought an Eames Lounge chair & ottoman. Check the photo gallery for the one with a martini sitting beside one. All that's missing is a pair of proper big headphones. The Billy Wilder history is interesting too.

A Partridge Family workbench! Those chrome hanging/bending/floor lamps were SO prone to fall over. As a kid it was a curse to be in a house with one, because you knew it was going to fall over at some point and you didn't want to be near it when it did.

It may have been okay in some parts of America in the seventies to do this, but not in the America I remember from that decade. I think this was kind of a nouveau riche thing, like plastic covers on the living room furniture. This may sound snobby, but this kind of 'decor' I think you would find in places like Levittown, or cookie cutter cheap suburban tracts back then.

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